The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-07-25
BRIEFS FROM TIE WIRES.

at Key Weet, Fla, there have been
three new cases Of fever and three deaths
since yesterday.
George Washington, colored tramp,
was lynched near Miasissippi City for as.
saulting white girl.
Mystsrious movements along the line OF
the South Penn are taken to indicate that
the road is to be built.
st. Mathews German Lutheran Church,
Chicsgo, was destroyed by fire Saturday
afternoon. Loss 5000. ,
A broken draw.pips created an cpl.
demic and panic in the hotel at Conanicut
Park, R. l., and the hotel had 10 be closed.
Miss Rose Cleveland will take the vice.
principalship OF Filth avenue New York
private school at it's Fall opening in Sep
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Conductor SpetLigue has been arrested
Tor Causing the railroad disaster near st.
Thomas, Ontario, by neglecting to test
the air brakes.
Fire in Mottstreet, New York, destroyed
the Chinese joss house, including the
God kwan Koon. Loss to the Cinnamon
81, 900, insured for s, 900.
Eli Parkes,a prominent citizen OF Char
lotte, was literally torn to pieces by a
mad bull. His remains were found scat.
tered about the premises. The bull was
shot. @ 80 81 ~
Captain Mccormick, Of Saginaw, and
crew OF four and two young men from
Saginaw were drowned by the sinking of
the barge Theodore Perry in gale on the
lakes, Saturday.
Griffith Enders, master mechanic, and
Joe Ovens, discharged employee, got
into an alteration at the Natcheg, Jack
son & Columbus depot, New Orleans, and
both were killed. 4 5l. gisf
Theodore Thomas mas begun cult
against the National Opera Company for a
balance Of $lS,Sl7 on q contract for So4,-
500 IS musical director from December i,
1856 to June Is, 1857.
Henry Virgins, aged twenty years, was
hanged at Palatka, Fla, Saturday, for
murder. He had been twice convicted,
escaped from jail September, 1856, but Was
captured shortly afterward.
Mrs. Nina Bates died OF Columbus,
Saturday, from criminal assault commit
ted on the 9Th ult. Before her death she
made an ante-mortem statement, which
caused the arrest Of Noah Huston.
| j, An explosion Of ammonia occurred in
the reirigerating department OF Bergner
& Engels brewery, which resulted in aeri-
GUS injury to five men, slight injuries to
three others, and pecuniary loss Of about
So 900. Nj, - <, Z. If. {
Brigadier General William Mckee
Dunn, Of the U. s. Army, retired, late
Judge Advocate General, died at his coun.
try residence, Maplswood, Fairfax county,
Va., yesterday morning in his seventy
second year. y'5
The schooner George Worthington, of
Detroit, was sunk by collision with the
schooner George w. Davis, of Huron,
Mich, of Colchester Reef, Lake Erie. The
Worthington was light and the Davis was
loaded with iron. q
Telegrams from Dallas and San Antonio,
Texas, discredit the report that the Texas
cattle trail Is to be abandoned, and that
So 600 head OF cattle on their way to
Wyoming we're yesterday turned back at
the Arkansas river. ). 81. 81
A small child Of Ben Hope, farmer
living one mile north OF Gaylord, Kas.,
while handling shotgun in the room, dis.
charged the weapon. Mrs. Hope and her
three children received some Of the shot
which were not large. They will proba.
bly, recover. a n.
Jesse Purcell, a section boss on the
Nashville Chattanooga & st. Louis r. r.
WAS killed while resisting arrest, and
Dan Hoover, colored, captured by the
Sheriff Of Rutherford county, Tenn, fol
criminally assaulting al colored girl
Colored men afterwards riddled Howe,
with bullets, nc.
The funeral Of the pugilist, Weeden
who was shot aud killed by Policeman
Thompson on Wednesday night in Pitts
burgh, took place on Saturday and wa
, largely attended. Several tho usand PEG
pie, including one thousand women
visited Weedsn's late residence to yiev
the remains. II. 4 \ y "a RI ~, 4